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Quinn Slack on mandatory code review being abolished at AMP.

“Mandatory code review before it gets to Maine. Yeah, it's dead. It's been dead ever since we started working on AMP.”

AMP has stopped using GitHub Issues, pull requests, and is actively seeking to replace GitHub Actions, signaling that agent-native workflows may displace GitHub's core developer loop.

“We're not using issues. We're not using pull requests. We're barely on GitHub actions and we're looking to get off of that.”

Amp Infrastructure projects needing 1.3 gigawatts of steady-state base load capacity and roughly 6 gigawatts of spike compute capacity over the next 4 years to serve frontier AI teams.

“I think the steady state would be that we have a base load pool of 1.3 gigawatts at all times of base load capacity. For spike capacity, right now my estimate is we need roughly 6 gigawatts over the next 4 years for all our teams.”

Codex has been used as a de facto CMO at AMP for two months, running ads and providing AEO/SEO advice with results Quinn Slack rates as comparable to a human consultant.

“Codeex has been my CMO for the last like 2 months, basically running our ads and giving me advice on AEO and SEO and what have you. And I find it much more preferable to talking to a real human consultant, which I've also done. and it's roughly the same results.”

Quinn Slack coining the term jellyware for agent-customizable AI artifacts softer than traditional software.

“We will be releasing a lot of these little you know jellyware is what we're calling it. It's like softer than software but it's not totally vibe coded and you can customize it with your own agent.”

Amp Infrastructure is building shared compute infrastructure for frontier AI teams at gigawatt scale, positioning itself as a neutral coordinator rather than a competing cloud provider.

“We see ourselves as what's called an independent system operator.”

Amp Infrastructure frames itself as an independent system operator for compute, borrowing the ISO model from electric grid governance to coordinate shared compute capacity across frontier AI teams.

“We see ourselves as what's called an independent system operator.”

AMP considers local development servers dead, with no developers at the company running them.

“Local dev in our opinion is dead.”

AMP customers used Orbs more in the last 3 to 4 weeks than across all workflow changes in the entire prior year, per Quinn Slack.

“Our customers are using orbs more in the last three or four weeks than all of the change to how we build software that happened last year.”

Up to 20% of all US data centers in 2026 are at risk of cancellation or delay due to community backlash, per Anjney Midha's estimate.

“Up to 20% of all data centers this year in the US, my understanding is are at risk.”